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It may look nice, but this is not something you should put in a presentation like this, imho. Give it its own presentation like they did with Super Nintendo World. Because this is something the vast majority of people will not be able to go to anyway, and thus is a waste of time to watch for a lot of people.

Lmao these are amazing, thank you for sharing these.

I'm not a fan of either honestly, but the European one is so bad that NA automatically wins.

You may poke me about it:

If they announce Gameboy (Advance) main line Pokémon games for NSO in this Pokémon Direct, I'll buy either Pokémon Scarlet/Violet and the DLC.

If they announce gen 1, 2 AND 3 coming to NSO (rather than just one set of games like they did at first with the 3DS versions of those games), I'll do the same with Sword/Shield.

If they announce Stadium (2)/Colloseum/XD connectivity with these games to boot, I'll buy Scarlet AND Violet, and Sword AND Shield, and their DLCs.

If they announce ALL of the above, I'll buy all of that, and get a year of Pokémon Home to boot. And any other Switch Pokémon game I happen to be missing. Which I think it's just the Pearl remake.

I remember playing this but I could not get things down, so I dropped it pretty quickly.

Maybe when it drops on NSO I'll be giving it a longer try!

Unfortunately, on day 1, I already saw someone sharing a.. uh, "funny" sculpture. Thankfully it was only that one. I'm glad the vast majority I have seen have been cool stuff like these!

@NintonicGamer Based Yoshi. Looking good I'd say, good job!
Now where's my 50,0,000,0 dollers

Since the last Splatfest I've been playing Splatoon 3 a little more again, so I'll be playing some of that.
Since they added Yoshi's Story to Nintendo Music I've also been playing that here and there. I never actually beat all the levels in that game, let alone doing an all melon run, so that's what I'm doing currently.
I'll admit, I've always found Yoshi's Story to just be a mediocre game, but now that I'm playing it more I'm really finding the charm in this one and that makes me happy.

No DK for me as of yet. But that'll come later. Depends on if I find it below a certain price or not, because a DK fan I am not. I have the amiibo at least though. That one's cool.

Once again my country is entirely excluded...

They lost me the moment the succubus showed up. I'll play Pokémon with swear words, but I don't care for the practically nude depiction. Pass.

A for effort though I suppose.

We're winning! We're winning!

I'm getting the game now, for sure. Maybe not at launch, but won't be too far off from launch. Props to SEGA! Thank you! 👏

I've played the Splatoon Testfire.
I've played the ARMS Testpunch.

I don't think I'll be playing this.

It really just does not seem very fun to me. Not to mention it seems uncomfortable to play.
Maybe I'll give it a try, since it's a free demo and all, but.. meh.

Edit: I missed the part where this is exclusive for NSO members. That seems really weird to me. You give out 7 day trials relatively frequently, why not do the same for this game? It's like Nintendo thinks the game doesn't have the power to sell memberships!

The game itself may not have aged gracefully, but the music certainly has. Rainbow Road, Staff Credits, and Yoshi Valley are my favorites.

Cool, won't be getting these for a while then. Thanks for letting me save money!

I fear another "Paper Mario story" scenario might creep up where a lot of people voted about gameplay being more important, and Nintendo taking that as a que where story didn't matter at all in Paper Mario.

Except here people would vote rather downloading, but there is no option of "I would much rather have the full game on a physical cart".

Better yet, include a "I want the full game on the physical cart, and if it comes on a game key cart instead I would rather just not buy the game at all" option. That would be my vote.

Really, at this point, you'd be doing yourself a service only reporting on a Nintendo game NOT being out in the wild days before its release. It's more rule than exception.

I don't think I really have interest in a DK movie. I might watch it one day when it's on TV or I might get it cheap on blu ray or whatever, but definitely not seeing it at a movie theater.

Mario movie #2, and the Zelda movie, on the other hand...
Heck, give me pretty much any Nintendo franchise as a movie over DK, honestly.

But I know DK is beloved, so I'm glad for all the fans at least! Hope it turns out great. If this ends up being real, of course.

I don't really see the occasional frame drops as that much of an issue. I've enjoyed plenty of games that had them. Sure it would be better if they weren't there but it's usually not nearly as bad as people make it out to be.

That said... my reasoning for not getting the game at launch is because I'm not a DK fan in the slightest, and therefor am not willing to pay €70 for a DK game, so take my word for what you will lol.

I'll get the game though. Eventually. But I won't pay more than 50 bucks for it.

One of the rare Europe wins in my opinion. I find it better than the NA art, and while the Japanese one shows more of it, the yellow bar on the right bothers me too much.

Sounds to me like Nintendo wants to force users to send their stuff to Nintendo to get even more money out of consumers from these expensive things.

I think I'll just stick with the one pro controller and if I want more, I'll probably pick up 8-Bit-Do variants. The ones I have for PC from them are excellent. They'll probably make Switch 2 specific controllers, if they haven't already.

I do very much wonder where Nintendo, or gaming as a whole, would be now if it weren't for Iwata. I have immense respect for this man, bless his soul. We lost him way too soon and the industry desperately needs figures like him back in the saddle. RIP 💔

I like ALL of these options. Except for new versions of existing characters. There's a reason why Pink Gold Peach and babies Daisy and Rosalina were disliked. If you're going to invent new stuff, make new established characters from species already in the game, like they did with Toadette in Double Dash. Or I guess Waluigi in Mario Tennis. (Hey, human is a species that is in Mario games.)

I don't know what to vote for really though because I want all the other options equally. The game is target undercooked and NEEDS all that stuff, and then some, to be the game it really deserves to be.

I guess at the very least I'm hoping for all the cut characters to return over time. And I'm hoping for DLC. Maybe that DLC will take on the form of an entirely new island to double the amount of tracks. Of course you couldn't go from one track to the other between islands, but I don't know how else they would incorporate new tracks as DLC in this game, lest they awkwardly plop them into the already existing map. I guess they could just have you drive over the water though. Plenty of locations already do that. But that would be long stretches of water. Unless they put (more) water specific courses in between the islands.

I also really, really want more actual characters that aren't NPC drivers. And I want the NPC drivers to be given more personality. Give them outfits (really, no Fire/Boomerang/Ice alternatives for Hammer Bro is a travesty), and make them match the others in facial expressions too. I saw a video that shows all of the characters react to blue shells. Every character looked on in shock or surprise... while the NPC drivers just had a blank, boring stare. If you're going to put these things in, at least make them fun.

@BaldB3lper78 @karatekid1612 Heck, didn't realize it came to N64. I didn't even know the series was that old. I thought it was always a Playstation exclusive and started on PS2 at earliest. Thanks for educating me!

@BaldB3lper78 I never played Wipeout, I don't think that ever came to Nintendo platforms. But I'll take your word for it! It's good to see other devs keeping the futuristic racer genre alive either way, since Nintendo isn't really doing it.

@BaldB3lper78 To be fair, FAST has always been a series that performed really well, as far as I remember. It's a really solid series that I could truly recommend to anyone.

I'll wait for Tomodachi.

For any game that is designed from the ground up to be played online....

Why not add support to make them fully playable offline too?

To this day, people still want to be able to battle against the AI in Splatoon, or at least have an AI take over for any player that happens to disconnect. The fact that this hasn't been done yet, especially considering AI Octolings exist, is really baffling. But I'm sure this can be done, and I'm sure plenty of online only games can benefit from similar things.

I'm not going to get my hopes up because of some blurry images.

Besides, it might be months before any of these actually drop, due to the drip feed nature of this service.

35 hours apparently. With my most played mode probably being regular Grand Prix because that takes the longest by default to get 3 stars in.

For a new Mario Kart entry that released a month ago by now, that number is pretty low for me. I'd have over 100 usually by now I think.

Aside from the heat not really letting me play much out of fear of overheating my system, the game is just kind of disappointing to me. All those years without a proper new entry, all the hype they built around this game, and this is what we got. It's just... not it. They said it was worth the price increase but nah, no it's not. It's just a higher price because Mario Kart 8 kept selling. That update that killed online didn't help much.

I will say however, that I believe the game has a lot of potential. The actual gameplay mechanics are great. They just need to use this game as a base and build it up more. It can be so big, so grand. I believe that in a few years it could possibly be the best Mario Kart. Right now it feels like one of the worst. It just needs some updates to fix its issues, and both free and paid DLC (so long as the paid DLC is priced after its actual value, and not overpriced like the main game).

I'll be keeping an eye on this game and seeing where it will go. Right now it's just, meh, but I'm really hoping it will grow into a solid 10/10 game.

I do like when things like these are included. Props to the Street Fighter 6 team for this one.

It absolutely should be an option.

And for those who don't care, just make a toggle that says "automatically download new games" to make the app function as it currently does.

It really shouldn't be that difficult.

On that note, give each of these apps folders too. GameCube isn't bad right now but the rest of em, especially NES and SNES, have such a big catalogue now that it's kind of annoying to really find games to play. I'd like the ability to sort every game as they currently are but also being able to put them all into folders for easier access and sorting.

Not gonna lie, I've been kind of afraid to play my system much in this heat. And when I do play stuff, it's stuff that doesn't require much horsepower. And then I'll only play for a bit. I don't want to risk this thing bricking on me!

It doesn't matter who worked on it, it still should've been a pack in.

@Misima I don't think I even ever saw Wavebirds in stores over here. Only regular GameCube controllers.

Hah. I loved that song as a kid. I still like it a lot in fact. So this is pretty cool.

@Misima Not everyone has those! I don't have any Wavebirds.

@MSaturn Honestly just shows that the game industry needs companies like Nintendo now more than ever.

Like they're absolutely not perfect, but they're consistently said to be great to work for or with, and there's some value in that.

@MSaturn It is really unfortunate that a job in making things that should bring smiles to many people is so toxic, huh? I'm glad you found yourself a different career path and spared yourself the (professional) game development misery!

As a kid, I always wanted to be a video game developer.

Today, as an adult, reading articles like these, I'm actually really glad I never pursued a career in video game development.

I'm already seeing people pulling the cord a bit too tight a bit too quickly, causing the dock to fall over, causing the Switch 2 to fall out, causing it to break when it hits the Cheetos dust and coke can littered floor.

I can't believe they had a second Donkey Kong Bananza Direct.

Was hoping for Sparking Zero on Switch 2 but alas. Maybe in an upcoming Direct!

With all this FFIX stuff officially going around, that remake just has GOT to be real. If not then I don't know why they really bother with all this stuff.

If the file size really is the issue, then have the system use a media that allows bigger files to be stored on it.

Right now, all they're doing is shoving the cost onto the consumer by practically forcing the consumer to buy additional storage in the form of those expensive express SD cards that are also just rather difficult to come by, especially any that actually have some significant size to it.

That's probably my biggest gripe with these atrocious game key cards. The addition of it coming with the worst of both physical and digital worlds is just icing on top.

These things can't become a thing of the past fast enough. By far the worst thing to come out of the Switch 2 generation.

@SirLink Do you get all of them? Personally I only get my top favorites, and all the borders and backgrounds when there is at least one character in a set I want so I'll have options to mix and match there. I couldn't even begin to think about getting literally every single icon!

But one thing they could do is just allow you to bulk buy the icons and get a discount for insta-buying a whole set. Like 10 platinum coins off. That would be nice, and would save time having to get them all one by one as well.

@beltmenot Apologies, didn't mean to come across that way! Even so, something not bothering you doesn't mean you can't understand why something can't bother other people, is all.

@Hee-ho-master If so then there really is no reason to cheap out on this other than... just wanting to cheap out. Here's hoping they do the right thing! Thanks for the info!

@beltmenot People don't like having to download games they buy a physical copy of. Plus it comes with the worst of both physical and digital aspects, with the only benefit being that you can sell it.

Pair this with the Switch 2 capacity not being overly great (despite being several times bigger than Switch 1), and the SD cards Switch 2 needs cost quite a bit, especially the bigger one, and it puts quite a bit of strain on consumer Switch 2 system memory. And consumer wallets if they want to expand, on top of the already very costly Switch 2.

I'm already struggling hard to maintain my memory on the Switch 2, which I never really had an issue with on Switch 1, largely thanks to the complete lack of game key cards (and code in a box games not being too present either). I never felt like I had a lack of capacity, very much unlike the Switch 2 even just in its first year vs 8 years of Switch 1.

Gee, I wonder why people dislike game key cards. 🤔

I know the game is probably too big to fit on a normal cart but I'm gonna chant it anyway:

Please don't be a game key card please don't be a game key card please don't be a game key card please don't be a game key card please don't be a game key card--

This is one of those games I really would love to support on Switch (2) but I also just really do not wish to support those things so it's a conundrum.

It didn't tank the score THAT much for me, but the game did go from a 7/10 to a 6/10 for me.

The game still has so much potential though. Hopefully they will build it up to a solid 10/10.

Don't praise them too much, they might start charging us for these.

Might have to get one of these. I'm already struggling with my available capacity with the original Switch 2 SD card.